Fishing vessels at Fishermen's Port

Fishing vessels at Fishermen's Port

Fishing vessels at Squalicum Harbor

Fishing vessels at Squalicum Harbor

Recreational fishing vessels at Squalicum Harbor

Fishing vessels at Fishermen's Port

Stern trawlers that usually fish off Alaska and return to Seattle for maintenance and resupply

A purse seiner in Deception Pass

A purse seiner in Deception Pass

The fishing fleet at Blaine

The fishing fleet at Blaine

The fishing fleet at Blaine

The fishing fleet at Blaine

Fishing vessels at Everett

The F/V WHITWORTH

Port profile of a purse seiner

The F/V KRISTINE

Port profile of a purse seiner

The F/V LAURIANNE

Fishing vessels at Everett

Part of the fishing fleet at Everett

Stern view of a purse seiner

A fleet of company boats

Crab pots ready for deployment

A salmon gillnetter at Astoria on the Columbia River

Salmon gillnetters at Astoria on the Columbia River

Salmon gillnetters at Astoria on the Columbia River

A gillnet wound on its reel

Clam dredging with the dredge deployed from the starboard side

Deploying a clam dredge offshore

Deploying a clam dredge in nearshore waters

Operating the winch on a clam dredger

Recovering the dredge on a clam dredger

A dredge haul including live clams and empty shells

Beginning to sift through the dredge haul on a clam dredger

Returning home with bags of clams on deck of a clam dredger

The dredge haul on deck of a clam dredger

Clam fishing from a skiff requires good balance

Clam fishing from a skiff requires good balance

Menhaden fishing - Putting over the purse seine boats early in the morning

Menhaden fishing - Putting over the purse seine boats early in the morning

Menhaden fishing - Preparing to deploy net during two-boat purse seining operation

Menhaden fishing - closing the net and trapping the fish

Preparing to pump the trapped fish aboard the menhaden fishing mother vessel

Drawing the net tighter about the captured menhaden

As the net draws tighter a few fish are seen as the initial casualties of the progressive compression of the school within the net

As the net draws tighter and tighter more and more fish become casualties and become easier to pump aboard the mother vessel

The pump operating within the mass of captured fish and lifting them to the hold of the mother vessel

Men in the purse seine boats standby as the pumping operation proceeds. The menhaden are being lifted to the mother vessel

Purse seine boats setting nets to capture school of menhaden